West Africans turn to technology to tame the traffic beast
If you own a mobile phone and spend sunup to sundown watching the traffic pass in Ghana's capital, then Iddrisu Mohammed wants you to be his spy.
Mar 24, 2013
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Mar 24, 2013
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Report raises concern over Europe's land-use footprint
Imports to meet Europe's ever-growing food demand require it using land beyond its borders roughly the size of Scandinavia, according to a new study that urges belt-tightening.
Mar 08, 2013
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Microsoft, Huawei eye smartphone push into Africa
Microsoft announced on Tuesday it had teamed up with Chinese manufacturer Huawei to launch an affordable smartphone across Africa.
Feb 05, 2013
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Biologists study carrion fly DNA to derive mammalian diversity
Amnesty, Greenpeace urge prosecution in I.Coast dumping
Britain must launch a criminal probe into the multinational firm Trafigura and its role in the 2006 deadly dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Amnesty International and Greenpeace ...
Sep 25, 2012
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Endangered Roloway monkey born in French zoo
An exceptionally rare Roloway monkey has been born at a zoo in eastern France that is striving to preserve one of the most endangered primate species on the planet.
Aug 02, 2012
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Dutch prosecutors want Trafigura fine doubled
Dutch prosecutors Thursday asked a court to slap a two-million-euro fine on multinational oil trader Trafigura for the illegal export of toxic waste later dumped in Ivory Coast.
Nov 17, 2011
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UN investigator says medical waste risks ignored
(AP) -- A human rights investigator for the United Nations says up to a quarter of the world's trash from hospitals, clinics, labs, blood banks and mortuaries is hazardous and much more needs to be done to ...
Sep 14, 2011
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Disease claims young victims in Ivory Coast crisis
(AP) -- Kneeling family members bent in prayer over two little bodies wrapped in sheets on the grass in the hospital grounds. Then two women among them released heart-rending wails.
Apr 22, 2011
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'Extinct' frogs haven't croaked -- scientists
Delighted conservationists announced on Wednesday they had found two species of African frog and a Mexican salamander that had been feared to extinct.
Sep 22, 2010
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Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump
The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.
Mar 10, 2010
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Syntax in our primate cousins
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...
Dec 11, 2009
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I.Coast toxic dump 'still claiming lives'
Three years after a ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast, residents of a village off the main city of Abidjan are still traumatised by untimely deaths they say are linked to poisoning.
Sep 19, 2009
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